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1385 to 13941385x - The Albanian ruler of Durrės invited Ottoman forces to intervene against a rival.
aug 14 - Jogaila and his brothers signed a treaty with Poland at Krievos Castle.He agrees to convert to Christianity and to seek the conversion of all of Lithuania and that then Lithuania and Poland would unite. The treaty also includes an agreement to free all captive Catholics and to help Poland regain all the land it had lost to the German Knights. Vytautas urged Jogaila to go to Poland and leave Lithuania to be ruled by himself.
aug 15 - John of Portugal defeated John of Castile at the Battle of Aljubarrota.
1386x - Queen Hedwig was married to a Lithuanian prince at age 12.
x - The Earl of Suffolk, Michael de la Pole, was the first person to be impeached along modern lines of procedure.
x - Lithuanian Grand Duke Jagello (Jogaila) married Jadwyga, Queen of Poland. He accepted Latin Christianity and assumed the Polish crown as King Wladyslaw. Christianity was introduced to Lithuania.
x - The University of Heidelburg, the oldest in Germany ?, is founded.
x - The Duomo Cathedral was begun in Milan. The Milanese boast that it took 500 years to build.
1387x - Rudolf Schoppe, preceptor of the Teutonic Knights + in the Morea, became the field deputy of Pedro Bordo de San Superan
x - Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian soldier and national hero. He was the father of Matthias Corvinus.d.
x - Fra Angelico, Giovanni da Fiesole, Italian painter. His work included the "Annunciation." d.1455
x - Henry of Lancaster was a participant in the "Merciless" Parliament.u.1388
x - Henry of Lancaster supported his uncle Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, in an attack on the government of Richard II.
aug 09 - Henry V, British king famous for his victory at Agincourt, France ? , was born.
1389x - Statute of Provisors makes papal appointments in England invalid.
x - Cosimo de Medici, Florentine merchant banker. The Medici family served as the world-wide tithe and tax collector for the Catholic Church. d.1464
x - Henry of Lancaster rejoined King Richard II.
x - A French bishop advised the Pope that the Shroud of Turin, that had materialized in the village of Lirey a generation earlier, was a fraud.
x - Serbs, defeated by the Ottoman Turks, moved from Kosovo to the Krajina region of Croatia.
jun 15 - Ottoman Turks crushed Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo.The Serbs were defeated by the invading Turkish Ottoman army at the Battle of Kosovo Polje, the "Field of Blackbirds." In the battle, the Serb prince Lazar was captured by the Turks and beheaded. The Battle of Kosovo, in which the Serbs chose death rather than surrender, remains a permanent symbol in the Serbian national consciousness. Lazar's bones were placed in the monastery at Gracanica in Kosovo. Albanians joined a Serbian-led Balkan army that was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Kosova.
jun 28 - The Serbs were defeated in the Battle of Kosovo at the Field of the Blackbirds. Sultan Murat, the Ottoman leader was killed in the battle. Serbs say that Albanians aided the Turkish invaders. Historical evidence shows that both forces were multinational and that Serbs and Albanian fought on both sides.
1390c - Jacques de Baerze made his statuette "Corpus Christi." It was key work in the transition from medieval art to realism.
x - Henry of Lancaster, later Henry IV, departed England ?+ on a Crusade to Lithuania and then to Jerusalem +¢.
1391x - status List of Moreote fiefs included the Hospital of St. John and the Teutonic Knights +
aug 05 - Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against the Jews.
1392x - The Choson Dynasty ruled over Korea. u.1910
x - The University at Erfurt on the Gera River was founded. Erfurt is the capital of the state of Thuringia and Martin Luther ?+* later studied there.
x - 100 Years War +¢ Charles VI of France suffers his first attack of insanity. Conflict between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians begins.
x - Koreans have a type foundry to produce bronze characters.
1393x - Henry of Lancaster returns to England as a hero.
1394x - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer, sailed south of the Canary Islands to the great eastward curve of West Africa at Sierra Leone. d.1460
x - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry of Lancaster, died. She and Henry had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
mar 04 - Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese voyages of discovery, was born.
jul 25 - Charles VI of France ? issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
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